Comments on: Sony PS4 may abandon Cell processor

By: Steven

Steven — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 16:48:00 +0000

I’m playing my PS3 right now, there really isn’t content available on the scale of the snes, ps2, or ps1. This is, of course, excluding downloadable mini games.

By: jesterking

jesterking — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 16:24:00 +0000

Well, I wouldn’t doubt if they ditched the Cell… It is well beyond anything else that’s out there today. Developers just don’t want to write the complex code specifically for it. Instead, they write the code for xbox first, and port it for the PS3. That’s why games always end up so crappy on the PS3…

So Sony would take a step back, and simplify their cores. Developers are lazy and under insane time frames. If they can code a game easily, and then port it to the other system and put out some patches to try to get it in decent shape, that’s what they’ll do. Sony just has to make it easier than Microsoft, for devs to write games for.

By: First Name

First Name — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 23:56:00 +0000

I’d be more surprised if they kept the same CPU given that noone in the original Sony-Toshiba-IBM alliance has discussed a successor to the Cell.

By: Waleed Chaudhary

Waleed Chaudhary — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 21:46:00 +0000

“something that is still being blamed for the slow rise in content available for the system.” Yeah, in the first couple years. Not for the past few years anymore. What a pathetic statement.